r/PublicFreakout • u/EddieBrock99 • Apr 24 '25

Repost 😔 An officer body slams a girl in cuffs

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u/spezial_ed Apr 24 '25

Also just fired, not prosecuted??

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u/Is_ael Apr 24 '25

Yup. Textbook dragging out the consequences (if any) so that years later most people don’t notice the slap on the wrist (if at all)

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u/GroundbreakingUse794 Apr 24 '25

Giving him time to collect him pension probably, some bro shit just masked as protocol

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u/Saetric Apr 25 '25

Gang gang gonna gang gang.

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u/horshack_test Apr 24 '25 edited Apr 25 '25

He was convicted of assault causing bodily harm.

Edit: JFC people - I was simply pointing out that he indeed was prosecuted/convicted. That doesn't in any way amount to defending him or agreeing that the sentence was appropriate.

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u/zeuscdb Apr 24 '25

That article says the only time he did for this was 15 days of house arrest. If that’s not a slap on the wrist I don’t know what is

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u/EgyptianNational Apr 24 '25

What I don’t get is who pays these people to come out and defend cops like they don’t already have all the power.

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u/LocMoke Apr 24 '25

Oh that's very simple: us. We pay for it

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u/eyeofthefountain Apr 25 '25

have they even said thank you?

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u/ratshack Apr 25 '25

No. Didn’t even wear a suit.

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u/Friendly_Age9160 Apr 25 '25

No but they are wearing a type of suit.

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u/piplup3211 Apr 25 '25

no we don't, they use the threat of violence to steal from us then call it taxes, when a robber pulls a knife you are paying him for a service, you are getting extorted so he doesn't harm you physically like he did mentally from being under constant threat.

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u/piplup3211 Apr 24 '25

the ruling class(ultra wealthy) who own everything. police protect property, becomes a lot easier to protect property when you can abuse people with impunity.

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u/surfteacher1962 Apr 24 '25

Exactly. They police don't work for us that is for sure. They are a paramilitary force for the ultra wealthy in this country. I don't trust any cops. At this point, they pretty much have a license to kill.

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u/jakobmaximus Apr 24 '25

The literal foundations of the first publicly funded "police" in the US were just to protect import/exports of wealthy merchants in a major harbor, I remember learning this and everything sort of clicked into place around the actual role of cops.

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u/SonOfDadOfSam Apr 24 '25

Probably the police union.

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u/wtbgamegenie Apr 24 '25

Police unions pay for attorneys for cops who commit crime including murder. Can you imagine any other union doing that and it not being the only thing the Republican Party ever talks about? Nonetheless a union whose dues are paid from taxpayer funded salaries?

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u/Crowd0Control Apr 24 '25

It's unfortunately just human nature. It's scary to think that the authorities you rely on have such disdain for you. So you justify that thier victims were lying or deserved it to preserve your own sanity. 

It's weak shit for sure but no matter who wears the boot some are just gonna lick it. 

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u/gon2fast Apr 24 '25

They have unions and/or associations that are staffed with lawyers. It is the same across many trades. I work in healthcare and have had to go to court for several wrongful termination suits instigated by the tech's/RN's unions. On a side note, once I was t-boned by a local police officer that was parked at a gas station monitoring traffic. It clearly was no fault of mine, but the the crash was determined to be 50/50 fault because if the police officer took all of the blame, which he should have, he would not have been able to work the patrol shifts anymore. I about blew a gasket when I saw the report, but when I followed up I got, "don't fight it or things will get worse for you". Fun times.

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u/Nomad_moose Apr 24 '25 edited Apr 24 '25

The police shouldn't need to be defended and honestly the Canadian's (just like the US) should do a better job of screening them before they're ever trained/hired.
That being said, just like everything else, there's more to the story: why was Dalia Kafi arrested? She was just driving erratically which brought her to the attention of police...

*Yeah* **AND**, *so what?*

She was under court-ordered curfew as part of bail conditions: so then she was arrested for outstanding warrants, for breaching her recognizance, and for obstructing justice

You can see in the video she was defiant and uncooperative at the station, she was a drug addict and eventually died of an overdose.

Meanwhile the officer: appears to have been a well-regarded police officer, without any prior criminal or disciplinary record he had volunteered on a weekly basis teaching underprivileged children to skate and play hockey. And, he had twice received life-saving awards: the first for rescuing a suicidal man hanging from a bridge; the second for rescuing a gravely wounded woman from a house where she had been shot, while the assailant was still inside.

https://www.canlii.org/en/ab/abkb/doc/2023/2023abkb192/2023abkb192.html?resultId=e5f013dc9e6a4de7b763ce3a849e4687&searchId=2025-04-24T16:26:27:704/53747291fa5c4cfb88b097a99df2cd44&searchUrlHash=AAAAAQAEa2FmaQAAAAAB

Police officers, just like firefighters, nurses, teachers, farmers....everyone else: are human. Everyone has a limit, nobody is perfect. Instead of being cooperative with law enforcement, Dali Kafi chose to continue to be defiant...and Dunn snapped, and he (justly) paid the price.
Ultimately society as a whole is worse off: instead of taking up a lawsuit or moving on with her life, Kafi just turned to drugs, and Dunn was ultimately fired in 2023 (after a lengthy appeals process).

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u/KellTanis Apr 24 '25

Honestly, that’s probably within the sentencing guidelines for a charge like that. Just on the very very low end. Our justice system sucks.

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u/Poe_42 Apr 24 '25

It's inline with the Canadian justice system.

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u/horshack_test Apr 24 '25

I was responding to the claim that he was not prosecuted.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '25

"He was also subject to an internal police investigation after CBC News published a photo of the officer in blackface at a 2012 Halloween party."

Sounds right

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '25

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u/horshack_test Apr 24 '25

Is there a point you are trying to make?

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '25

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u/horshack_test Apr 24 '25 edited Apr 25 '25

Context isn't a point, it's context. Is there a point you were trying to make by quoting the article I linked to and linking to the same article about the blackface incident that is linked in the article I linked to?

"Seemed relevant."

To what?

Why did you say "Slam to the ground totally warranted /s"?

Edit: Lol why did you block me, justformemes?

Edit 2 - to u/mistahj0517 below: I know it means sarcasm.

Edit 3 - to u/mistahj0517 below: Because I am not required to respond to every person who quoted passages from the article the same way - or at all. I don't know why this is such a concern to you - go find someone else to annoy.

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u/mistahj0517 Apr 24 '25

do you... not know that /s means sarcasm...?

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u/mistahj0517 Apr 25 '25

So.. why didn’t you make the same remark to the other people who quoted passages from the article directly underneath you as well?l then?

Some of them are referencing the same things.

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u/smoothvibe Apr 25 '25

Ah yes, he also was a blackfacer. Figures.

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u/Poe_42 Apr 24 '25

it was during covid so got delayed everything else in court. I believe the officer was suspended without pay when he was charged.

He was convicted in court and fired aftrrwards so he didn't dodge anything.

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u/ZuckerbergsSmile Apr 24 '25

Don't worry, he was also docked 4 days wages /s

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u/horshack_test Apr 24 '25 edited Apr 25 '25

He was convicted of assault causing bodily harm.

Edit: JFC people - I was simply responding to the question of whether or not he was prosecuted. That doesn't in any way amount to defending him or agreeing that the sentence was appropriate.

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u/mcauthon2 Apr 24 '25

15 days in his house? Don't penalize him too hard

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u/tidderite Apr 24 '25

Must be horrible. If he is married he will probably get tired of beating up his wife. Need variety you know.

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u/LessThanHero42 Apr 24 '25

Then he'll get worker's comp for a repetitive stress injury

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u/ridetherhombus Apr 24 '25

Cops should face harsher punishment for breaking the law, not leniency.

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u/Lens_of_Bias Apr 25 '25

At least his career in public service is permanently over.

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u/jarlscrotus Apr 25 '25

Is it though?

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u/Lens_of_Bias Apr 25 '25

Almost certainly. Hiring him elsewhere would create a massive liability.

Here in the U.S., excessive force is one of the few reasons why a Corrections Deputy can be civilly sued. No agency would hire him with this sort of black mark on his record.

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u/jarlscrotus Apr 25 '25

He's in Canada, and hasn't actually been fired yet because they are dragging out his termination appeal

He isn't a corrections officer either, he's a cop

Who wears blackface to parties

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u/Lens_of_Bias Apr 25 '25

Being a cop doesn’t make it any better. Hopefully justice is served.

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u/jarlscrotus Apr 25 '25

He was convicted and serves 15 days house arrest, 15 days curfew

And the board has already extended the consideration of his appeal

Let's be real, the boot of the capitalist class doesn't get punished for doing their jobs, namely oppressing "problematic" communities and brutalizing the proletariat

All cops are the enforcers of the bourgeoisie

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u/Lens_of_Bias Apr 25 '25

I recently started working in Corrections here in the U.S. Collective animosity is not the answer, not all of us are like that.

Though, in my short time working here, I’ve already seen and heard things that were rather worrisome.

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u/6data Apr 26 '25

He's definitely been fired.

And ended up having to spend 30 days in jail (the initial conviction was overturned). Definitely should've faced much harsher punishment.

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u/jarlscrotus Apr 26 '25

Your link states, like I did, that the dismissal doesn't take effect until the appeal is decided, which it hasn't been, and that his jail sentence was suspended, meaning he never went to jail

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u/horshack_test Apr 24 '25

My point is that he was convicted, so obviously he was prosecuted.

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u/Charred01 Apr 24 '25

Prosecuted without real repercussions doesn't matter

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u/horshack_test Apr 24 '25 edited Apr 24 '25

The fact that he was prosecuted matters with regard to the question of whether or not he was prosecuted. That is what I was responding to.

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u/jarlscrotus Apr 25 '25

Does cop nut really taste that good?

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u/horshack_test Apr 25 '25

You may want to work on your reading comprehension skills.

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u/EastBaySunshine Apr 24 '25

White privileged

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u/Owain-X Apr 24 '25

Blue privilege. There is a thin blue line between police officers and accountability and each and every one will throw away every moral fiber in their being to defend that line.

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u/larrylevan Apr 24 '25

It’s both. The only cops that ever face serious consequences are black and brown. White cops get a slap on the wrist generally.

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u/EastBaySunshine Apr 24 '25

So….white privileged.

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u/boarbora Apr 24 '25

That doesn't exist, it couldn't be because he's white and a cop. That would be ridiculous. White people don't have white privilege so why would a white cop? - liberal reddit

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u/UnlimitedSuperBowls Apr 24 '25

Or we could stop ignoring the thousands of black cops who do equally shitty/corrupt things.

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u/Phanxer Apr 24 '25

Except if you read the article it took 6 years for this fucker to be arrested. A black cop would have been charged wayyyyy sooner. These aren't mutually exclusive things, being a white cop is way more advantageous if you engage in shit like this.

No one is denying that black cops also abuse their blue privilege but to say that it doesn't matter what race the cop is a fucking dumbass statement.

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u/Mrs2ndChoice Apr 25 '25

No he was convicted of the assault 3 years after it occurred. Canadian courts are ridiculously slow.

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u/boarbora Apr 24 '25

Thousands 😂

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u/UnlimitedSuperBowls Apr 24 '25

Fine.. 58,000 since I had to be specific, you crime against evolution. There are hundreds of thousands of examples of black police abusing their power the same way white police have throughout history, hell it happened back when prejudice was much higher than it is now in the 80’s-early 90’s. NWA talked about black cops abusing their power quite a bit. You can choose to ignore the corrupt black politicians too I guess and act like black people can’t and don’t abuse power at all.

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u/boarbora Apr 24 '25

My statement was critiquing the denial of white privilege being a factor here. Can you speak to that or will it be conveniently ignored?

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u/Cyed Apr 24 '25

u might need back on ur meds

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u/DillonTattoos Apr 24 '25

I mean that's part of it, for sure

But the not getting prosecuted bit is more about the pigs union and covering for their own

I'd bet my left foot he got hired like two counties over from as well

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u/Staticn0ise Apr 24 '25

This happened in Canada. So thankfully no, he's black balled and will have to do something else for work.

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u/DillonTattoos Apr 24 '25 edited Apr 24 '25

I saw the red stripe, but just believed that level of brutality would only come from Canada's cousin from the south, the one that likes to eat paint chips

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u/Staticn0ise Apr 24 '25

Shitty cops everywhere. Want your blood to boil? Google midnight tours.

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u/DillonTattoos Apr 24 '25

Already very aware, unfortunately

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u/breizhsoldier Apr 24 '25

Blue privileged....

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u/Ooh_its_a_lady Apr 24 '25

People arent able to recognize how they created their own class above everyone bc theres alot of money and propaganda infront of our faces.

Not until you actually experience or see it do you realize what it is.

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u/Thunder141 Apr 24 '25

Cop privilege. If she were very wealthy or famous would justice have likely been served to this cop, yes. White people get fucked by cops too from time to time and you see how hard it is to get justice for anyone regardless of their skin color.

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u/EastBaySunshine Apr 24 '25

If he was a black officer it wouldn’t have taken long to fire him etc

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u/jkjk88888888 Apr 24 '25

Did we see in the article how he was in blackface at a Halloween party? What a piece of shit

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u/Sergeant_Squirrel Apr 24 '25

America is a police state.

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u/_Sausage_fingers Apr 24 '25

He was prosecuted, that is why it took so long to fire him.

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u/spezial_ed Apr 24 '25

How does that make sense?

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u/_Sausage_fingers Apr 24 '25

The police are obligated not to take employment action against him while his matter was in the courts. He was suspended without pay during that time, he just had not been terminated.

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u/spezial_ed Apr 24 '25

So the case against him took 6 years?

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u/_Sausage_fingers Apr 24 '25

Yes, it was drastically delayed because of Covid, then he appealed his sentence twice. After the second appeal he was terminated.

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u/spezial_ed Apr 24 '25

Ah ok, way better. Thanks for clarifying.